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Thursday, 19 July 2012

Can therapeutic properties be ascribed to essential oils

Essential oils and spices
certainly earn their reputation at times of infection for example
menigitis and flu. There are very few sceptics around then! originally
the spices besides their anti cancer effects were found to have an
important effect on controlling plague. Not only did the merchants
importing them grow rich they had public monuments erected in their
honour so great was the problem.
In terms of what the everyday student might experience placing essential
oil on a wart will certainly remove it and the skin will reform without
a scar. So that is evidence of anti viral properties of a particular
component. Here the argument is whether therapeutic properties can be
attached to any particular component and whether it is the whole fresh
oil that must be used which has many dozens of components. So general
properties can be inferred though. I think we can all agree alcohol is
relaxing!

In terms of EOs vs antibiotics they do have very differant actions. EOs
will kill the germ while as I understand it antibiotics attach
themselves and so modify the germ having the body eliminate the modified
germ. Besides the side effects of antibiotics causing cancer etc there
is the issue of growing resistence which became evident within years of
the first use of penicillin so requiring ever increasing doses and ever
increasing side effects..

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